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When the elevator reached the top floor, Martin had already sent the board documents into the conference room.I locked the sapphire comb inside my mother's old desk and took my place at the head of the table. Twelve directors were waiting for my decision on the company's next acquisition.I rejected my father's plan to sell the company and approved the lakefront hotel renovation my mother had begun developing. When the final transfer document reached me, I signed without hesitation.Martin collected the papers. “Evelyn always believed you would return.”“She never pressured me.”“She wanted you to choose the time yourself.”Over the following weeks, I moved into a company apartment and learned the Chicago properties and clients. My mother's team treated my arrival cautiously, but no one questioned my judgment because my wedding had been canceled.Clara, the operations director, reminded me to eat between meetings. She never demanded an explanation for my departure from New York or mad
He Chose Her, So I Canceled Our Wedding Chapter 9
After the plane left New York, I lowered the window shade and opened the company files Martin had sent.Evelyn Russo Holdings operated hotels and commercial properties from its headquarters near the Chicago River. Martin had supervised the board while everyone waited for me to marry and decide whether to sell my shares.I had accepted that plan without asking what I wanted.Damian expected me to join the Valenti charitable foundation after our wedding. My father thought selling the company would be easier, while Luca had offered to find a buyer. Their advice had always sounded reasonable.Sunlight broke through the clouds as the plane descended into Chicago. For the first time, I looked forward to a meeting no one else had arranged for me.Martin waited outside baggage claim with a folder and a black coffee.“Evelyn told me you never take sugar.”“Thank you.”He did not ask about the wedding or suggest that I rest. The board was already waiting, and the transfer of authority could be c
He Chose Her, So I Canceled Our Wedding Chapter 8
When Luca reached Alessandra's apartment building, the manager was removing her access from the resident system.“Miss Russo left before dawn with one suitcase and her personal files,” he said. “She revoked the visitor permissions issued to you and Mr. Valenti. Her attorney will arrange for the remaining property.”Damian gave Luca the backup code to the apartment.The rooms still looked ready for a wedding. The ivory satin wedding shoes Damian had sent remained inside their cream-colored box on the dining table beside the apartment keys, while unopened gifts lined the wall. Half the bedroom closet was empty, but Alessandra had left the expensive jewelry behind. She had taken only what she needed to begin somewhere else.Standing in the quiet apartment, Luca understood that she had departed without expecting either man to follow.Alessandra rarely asked anyone to care for her. She managed her career and handled the strain between two powerful families without complaint. After Sienna e
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Hotel security sealed the bridal suite and called back everyone involved in the styling test.Sienna remained at the vanity in her silver bridesmaid dress. She insisted that she had not taken the sapphire comb and had no idea how it disappeared.Damian stood across from her with the empty jewelry case in his hand.“I am asking you one more time. Where is the comb?”“I already told you. The stylist removed it, and I never touched it again.”Luca stepped between them. “She just left the hospital. Security is checking the records, so give them time.”Damian picked up the ceremony book and threw it onto the table in front of Luca. The pages opened to the changes made to the welcome film and family reading.“You said she felt excluded, so you let her alter the film. Then you approved a reading that allowed her to address both families before the procession.”He turned to the photograph of Sienna wearing the sapphire comb.“She used Evelyn's heirloom for the wedding footage. When Alessandra
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When the event director informed me that Damian had reached the hotel, I had just returned to the car outside my family's cemetery in Queens.Before heading to the airport, I asked the driver to change our route and wait for forty minutes. I followed the wet stone path toward my mother's grave with the ceremony book inside my bag.The vows I had revised countless times were tucked between its pages. Now the hotel staff were dismantling the ceremony, and those promises would never be spoken.Rain began falling as I reached the grave. Evelyn still looked young in the photograph set into the stone. I wiped the water from its edge, opened the ceremony book, and placed my vows beneath her picture.“The comb is missing,” I said quietly.“I left it in the hotel safe because I thought it would be protected. Damian allowed the stylists to use it on Sienna, and now no one knows where it is.”I held the paper in place when the wind lifted one corner.“The wedding is canceled. I am not marrying hi
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The jewelry box slipped from Damian's hand when the event director finished speaking.The lid struck the marble floor, and the emerald ring rolled against his shoe. Alessandra had admired it during a private appointment with the jeweler, and Damian had assumed it would make up for the appointments he had missed.The amusement disappeared from Luca's face.“You said the wedding was canceled?” Damian asked.The event director handed him her tablet. “Miss Russo called at two this morning. By four fifteen, the reception, photography, band, transportation, and decorations had all been canceled. She accepted every contractual penalty.”Alessandra's electronic signature appeared on each confirmation. She had left nothing open for reinstatement.Damian called her several times, but a recorded message said the number was unavailable.“Where did she go?”“Miss Russo released the bridal suite. She did not use a hotel car or a Valenti vehicle.”Luca began calling Alessandra's assistant and the doo
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